Der Holzdieb

by Liza Marklund, Susanne Schröder

Pienessä, kepeässä joulutarinassa Annika Bengtzon selvittää kotikylässään tapahtunutta halkovarkautta Annika Bengtzon on tullut isoäitinsä luokse Södermanlandiin joulunviettoon. Kun hän poikkeaa vanhan Gunnar-setänsä luokse, hän kohtaa tuvan pimeydessä kiväärinpiipun. Gunnar-setä kertoo, että joku on käynyt varkaisilla hänen halkovajassaan. Pienessä kotikylässä epäiltyjen lista on lyhyt ja se on täynnä vain tuttuja nimiä. Joulupäivän aamun hämärissä Annika varjostaa ovelaa varasta ja miettii: mikä ihme pakottaa ihmisen naapurinsa halkovajaan?

Genres: Short Stories, Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Scandinavian Literature

Audio CD

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Scandinavia’s undisputed queen of crime fiction, Liza Marklund is the No. 1 international bestselling author of the Annika Bengtzon series.

Liza Marklund was born in 1962 in the small village of Pålmark, close to the Arctic Circle in Sweden. She is an author, journalist, columnist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She is also co-owner of Piratförlaget, one of Sweden’s most successful publishing houses. Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written eleven novels and two nonfiction books. Liza co-wrote the international bestseller The Postcard Killers with James Patterson, making her the second Swedish author ever to reach No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her crime novels featuring the gutsy reporter Annika Bengtzon have sold more than 13 million copies in 30 languages to date.

Liza Marklund worked as an investigative news reporter for ten years and as an editor in print and television news for five. Today, she also makes documentaries for television and writes for various newspapers. Her topics are often women and children’s rights. Liza has made documentaries about children with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia and Russia, and a series about domestic violence, Take a Little Beating.

Liza is also a popular columnist since 20 years. Her columns have appeared in various Swedish and international newspapers and magazines, including Financial Times in the UK, Welt am Sonntag in Germany, Dagbladet Information in Denmark, and Ilta-Lehti in Finland. She is a regular columnist in Swedish tabloid Expressen and Norwegian daily Verdens Gang. Today, Liza and her family divide their time between Stockholm in Sweden and Marbella in southern Spain.

Reviews

[Perttu Saraniva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very special book.

[Tytti · Rating 2 out of 5]

Scandinavian Crime (or even Nordic Noir) has never been a favourite of mine, but this was short enough to try. Unfortunately it didn't make me want to read other books by Marklund. I didn't really like anyone, not even the victim or the "heroine", and the mystery part was even shorter than I expected. But I guess there is nothing really wrong with it, it's just not for me.

A longer review in Finnish.

[Skeptigirl · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not terrible, but not amazing either. I picked it up as a quick intro to a new writer. It may not be a good representative of her work but I was not enticed. A good short story would grab me and make me not put it down until I was done. It was well written but I really did not manage to care who stole the old man's logs.

[Panu Mäkinen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Halkovaras on puolen tunnin välipala – oikeastaan kansien väliin sidottu kepeä joulunovelli, jossa Annika Bengtzon jahtaa kotikylässään riehuvaa halkovarasta. Tarina ei ole kovin kummoinen mutta novellina menettelee.

[Gitte · Rating 2 out of 5]

An OK 20-minute read, but it's definitely nothing special. But it was good to read about Annika Bengtzon again, and I hope there will soon be a real novel in the series.

[Trine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Søt liten bok :)

[Sidse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lille letlæst julehistorie, velegnet til højtlæsning for 10-årige og opefter.

[Christina Ruskjær · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meningsløs fortælling, som mest minder om en måde at tjene hurtige penge

[Jenni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pikainen paluu Annikan maailmaan. Aika tylsä sellainen, mutta sopiva hetkeen, kun haluaa hetkeksi muihin kuvioihin.